Cultivating an image of non-partisanship will be tricky as the Supreme Court takes on divisive cases
after John Roberts was named chief justice by George W. Bush in 2005, he presided over the “Kennedy court”—a tribunal that swayed left or right depending on the views of his maverick colleague, Anthony Kennedy. But in October 2018, when Donald Trump replaced Mr Kennedy with the more conservative Brett Kavanaugh, Mr Roberts assumed the role of median justice—four colleagues to his right, four to his left. The chief became, in the most divisive cases, the tie-breaker.
This squabble is one that Mr Roberts, a zealous defender of the court’s impartiality and legitimacy, is desperate to avoid. Yet cultivating an image of non-partisanship will be tricky, because he is tackling a host of clashes on the most electric docket the Supreme Court has seen in recent memory. Already the justices have considered gun rights, a major church-state quandary,, an Obama-era programme protecting unauthorised immigrants who were brought to America as children.
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